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Electrification Software

Sam Likes It Hot: This Intrepid Explorer Just Connected Nicaragua’s Most Active Volcano To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016
Sam Cossman is the human version of a heat-seeking missile. In fact, he craves heat to the extreme. Cossman, perhaps the world’s most prominent volcano explorer of the moment, spent the early part of August lowering himself into Nicaragua’s active Masaya Volcano, which is threatening people living in the area.
Clad in a silver suit that can withstand 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Cossman repeatedly descended 1,200 feet into the maw of a crater terminating in a bright orange lava lake and falls.
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Electrification Software

The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016

The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet.

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Better Together: Intel and GE Partner to Bring Predix to More Industries

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 17, 2016
Intel is one of the world’s biggest technology companies, with semiconductor manufacturing facilities all over the globe. Those plants have to maintain rigorously controlled environments where every surface must be clean, every process must be perfect and even the smallest improvements can make a large impact.

Intel works hard to ensure that these facilities are constantly pushing the technological edge.

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olympics

A Winning Idea: How The Cloud Helps Olympic Athletes Avoid Injury

August 09, 2016
For most Olympic athletes, the biggest fear is not failing to win a gold medal but falling victim to a last-minute injury that destroys years of hard work and endless hours of practice. But doctors working with big data and cloud-based software are competing to make those heart-breaking injuries less likely.
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Adaptation and Innovation in a World of Tiny Robots

August 03, 2016
Adaptation and innovation are the key to success in the modern industrial environment. That’s why GE is working closely with partners throughout global industry to deliver innovative solutions that adapt to their particular needs.
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CAVE2: Monash Uni’s virtual-reality wonderland

July 25, 2016
Strap in for a mind-blowing ride if you’re headed to Paul Bonnington’s presentation at the GE Grid Solutions 2016 Asia Pacific Software Summit (you can still register here). The Monash University professor has given GE Reports a preview, and his ability to bring CAVE2’s awe-inspiring visu
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An app store for machines

July 14, 2016
Predix is shaping up to become the app capital of the Industrial Internet. On the consumer internet an iOS app might tell you the weather forecast in a town of your choice, or track your hours of sleep relative to your kilojoules consumed on any given day. But take an industrial-size shopping cart to the Predix store for the app that analyses the risk and cost of derailment for a freight train traveling in any given weather condition, or an app that predicts where in an electricity grid blackouts are most likely to occur during a storm.
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Exploring our digital industrial future

July 14, 2016
As the middle of another year raced up on us all, CSIRO and GE created a travelling innovation show to bring together a wide array of Australia’s greatest thinkers and disruptors to discuss how we compete and collaborate in the innovation marathon.
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FIA16

Leave It To Software: Here’s How Data Analytics Will Make Airlines Fly Smarter

July 13, 2016
When the Dubai-based carrier flydubai started looking for new ways to make decisions based on the terabytes of data coming from its planes and pass the savings on to customers, the carrier did something unusual: It sat down with engineers from GE Aviation, the company that makes jet engines for many of its planes. GE has recently invested $1 billion in software and started collecting and analyzing data from passenger jets, power plants, medical scanners and other industrial machines.
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Big Data

GE And Microsoft Join Forces In The Industrial Data Cloud

July 11, 2016
The industrial cloud is about to get a lot bigger.
GE and Microsoft Corp. are uniting their cloud computing technologies in a partnership that will bring GE's Predix platform for the Industrial Internet to businesses running on Microsoft Azure.
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